Cambodia
- Siem Reap: more than just another pretty temple – If you think all there is to Siem Reap is just a bunch of ancient temples in Angkor, think again. Don’t get me wrong…there are A LOT of temples and each one is spectacular and unique. The temple complex of Angkor Wat is the world’s largest religious structure, made up of over a thousand buildings […]
- Week #33 ~ Recap – 103 miles, 8 more tuk-tuk rides, 16 temple ruins visited, 1 awe-struck moment watching a million bats fly from their nests, 1 visit to a Khmer Rouge site, 4 traditional food artisans visited, 1 circus performance, 1 foot massage, 2 rest days, 5,000 pictures taken that can never convey the entire experience, $368.41 UNDER budget. […]
- Monkeys and trains and bats ~ Oh my! – Or alternatively………”If you were cool ~ you’d be Battambang”. This small city in Northern Cambodia is just big enough to be comfortable for Westerners and just small enough to support artisans practicing their livelihood for local and tourist alike. The backroads were full of farmers making their living growing and harvesting Thai chilis, corn, potatoes, […]
- Drivers Education – If you take whatever you learned in drivers ed in high school, any expectations about right-of-way, or meaning from stop lights and stop signs, and throw it out the window, you will start to understand how traffic flows in Thailand and Cambodia. Intersections without a concept of right-of-way take on new excitement when everyone just […]
- Phnom Penh ~ – Most of us in the West ~ particularly Americans, think of Cambodia through the lens of the Vietnam War and the 1984 movie “The Killing Fields”. We found Cambodia to be much more than this recent history. When you don’t know anything about a country a day-long tour of its capital city can be very […]
- Week #32 ~ Recap – 687 miles, 1 flight, 8 crazy tuk-tuk rides, 4 roof-top beers, 2 countries and their respective capitol cities, 2 temples, 1 bike ride, 2 street food suppers, 1 floating market, 1 railway market, 2 royal palaces, 350 steps up to our first Khmer ruins, 1 bamboo train ride, 2 long-tail boat rides, 2 sets of […]